What next, though? You can vote in the poll below (up to three choices) for any ancient philosophy you fancy doing as an alternative to #Stoicweek in the future. Underneath is a roundup of recent posts in case you missed anything…

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The follow-up will be Stoic but as a lot of people have made comments about alternatives, it’s interesting to do a poll and measure their preferences. However, even in another Stoic study, there might be some references to other schools, as the Stoics often borrow from them, share a common heritage, etc. Sometimes techniques common to Stoicism and other schools might actually be better explained in the nonStoic writings. (For example, Seneca and Epictetus both explicitly refer to Stoics using the night-time retrospective contemplation of Pythagoreans, but Neoplatonists perhaps give more detail about how this was actually done in practice.)

Epicureanism is most popular on the poll. Perhaps we should mention Seneca more, who I would describe as being rather “Epicurious”, in that he clearly leaned in that direction (perhaps to the horror of stricter Stoics).